Star Trek Generations (1994)
For Christmas Eve last year, my folks and I watched the
A Christmas-Carol-esque
"All Good Things...", so of course this Christmas Eve, we just
had to follow it with
Generations!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
TNG is my favorite
Trek, and
Generations is my favorite
TNG film; ergo,
Generations is my favorite
Trek film overall. I respect Kahn the character and all, but, even if he's similarly hammy, I think Soran is the more interesting villain - a traumatized drug addict who has no limits whatsoever to what he'll do to get his next fix, even after 78 years. The detail that the Borg destroyed his homeworld struck me as pure fan service, but now I of course realize it's a bit of canon carried over from "Q Who", since he and Guinan are of the same people.
As
TM2YC noted in his review (link below), the atmospheric dark yellow lighting is very much over the top, and the uniform situation is a hilarious grab bag, but such awkwardness only makes me love the movie even more. I also love that Kirk and Picard have an argument of historic importance while scrambling eggs - it's just the right amount of goofy. This time around, I couldn't help noticing that the action choreography at the end was pretty poor (though Shatner did get to bust out his closed double-fist wallop one last time), but, what can one do?
Generations probably deserves a B+ at most, but, given my unapologetic love for it, I'll give it an
A-, instead.
TM2YC said:
Picard lets go of the Nexus far too easily, with no real explanation given beyond him being our hero...
That's never bothered me before or this time, because A) Picard knew what the Nexus was going in, and that his entry there came at an awful price, and B) he's just not that emotion-driven a guy anyway.